When: May 3, 2004
Where: NIH Campus, Lipsett Amphitheater, Bethesda, MD
Institute: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Esteemed AIDS researcher Emilio A. Emini, Ph.D., delivers the 2004 James C. Hill Memorial Lecture at the NIH campus May 3. The lecture, entitled “The Development of an HIV-1 Vaccine: The Need, the Hope, the Struggle, and the Unknown,” will be followed by a discussion. Dr. Emini is senior vice president and chief of vaccine development for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a global nonprofit organization whose principal mission is to find a vaccine to prevent HIV and AIDS.

The annual James C. Hill Memorial Lecture is dedicated to the memory of the former deputy director of NIAID, who helped build the institute's HIV/AIDS research program during the earliest years of the epidemic and was instrumental in educating the public and government officials about the emerging threat of AIDS.

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For more information, contact Cynthia Fabry at (301) 496-5719 or cfabry@niaid.nih.gov.

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